Clear your calendar! Nike Consumer Digital Tech is hosting tech talks for the PDX tech community on Nov. 19th. We're bringing two great speakers to the Nike campus and there will be time to network and enjoy snacks and drinks.

When

November

19

at

4:00pm

-

7:30pm

Where

15350 SW Koll Parkway

,

Beaverton

,

OR

97006

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SCHEDULE

4:00-4:30pm

Check-In, Networking, and Food/Drinks

The day we've all been waiting for

Mike Zoppo is a host of exceptional ability. Studies show that a vast majority of guests attending events by Mike have been known to leave more elated than visitors to Santa's Workshop, The Lost of Continent of Atlantis, and the Fountain of Youth.

Credits:

4:30-6:30pm

Real Time Operational Analytics at the Speed of Thought with Apache Spark

Scala, OODA, and Entropy: Thoughts on Continuous Learning

Jags Ramnarayan

Adam Rosien

6:30-7:30pm

Networking and Food/Drinks

REAL TIME OPERATIONAL ANALYTICS AT THE SPEED OF THOUGHT WITH APACHE SPARK

﻿JAGS RAMNARAYAN / CHIEF PRODUCT VISIONARY, SNAPPYDATA

ABSTRACT

Apache Spark has come a long way since it began as a faster batch oriented map-reduce solution for Hadoop. With support for streaming, machine learning, and most recently SQL, Spark aspires to become a player in the realm of real time analytics at scale. However, much of its underpinnings remain batch oriented and unsuited for highly concurrent OLAP workloads. In this talk, we will describe how we are innovating and renovating Spark's core underpinnings to make it suitable for real time operational analytics, helping create a unified platform that supports row and column data, high concurrency, and approximate query processing at scale.

ABOUT JAGS

Jags Ramnarayan is the chief product visionary for SnappyData. Jags is the Chief Architect for “fast data” products (GemFire) at Pivotal and has served in the extended leadership team of the company. At Pivotal and previously at VMWare, he led the technology direction for its high performance distributed data grid and in-memory DB products. He has spent more than two decades in this industry and has a bachelors degree in computer science and a masters degree in management of science and technology.

In this talk, Adam will discuss Compellon's approach to so-called prescriptive analytics, which basically means "Ok, but what the *&^% should I do now!?". He'll talk about the barriers blocking domain experts from using analytic systems, how data scientists bias their models, and the evolution of Compellon's engine, written in Scala with Apache Spark.

ABOUT ADAM

Adam Rosien is an engineer at Compellon, a prescriptive analytics company using Scala and Spark. He also runs the Orange County Scala Meetup and is an Associate at Underscore ("The Scala Specialists"). He previously helped various startups develop back-end systems and implement continuous deployment practices, and also spent five years as a developer at Xerox PARC.